Catching up on some various things I found funny, interesting or appealing from the web...
- As regular readers know, I love Roger Ebert in a way that should be illegal for a man to love another man. Perhaps Tommy Heinsohn loves Walter McCarty and Rajon Rondo more; I don't know, and I really hope I don't ever have to complete a test to find out.
Ebert is at his best when he is ripping into a truly horrible movie, such as Sex and the City 2. Frankly, the first movie looked like excrement, and the second movie looks even more horrid with the totally cheap plot device of transporting the characters to some foreign locale. He is no fan, giving it one star out of four, and he savages it from the opening paragraph:
As a wise man once said, ouch baby! I've seen about half an episode of Sex and the City, and I found it... well, repugnant. Then again, I find no problem with professional wrestling, so go figure. Like Jersey Shore, I just find Sex and the City to be the embodiment of thoughtless, ridiculous extravagance. I understand that it is probably escapist fun for many, but given how many people seem to actually emulate the show, I'm not a fan.Some of these people make my skin crawl. The characters of "Sex and the City 2" are flyweight bubbleheads living in a world which rarely requires three sentences in a row. Their defining quality is consuming things. They gobble food, fashion, houses, husbands, children, vitamins and freebies. They must plan their wardrobes on the phone, so often do they appear in different basic colors, like the plugs you pound into a Playskool workbench.
- Slate finished its series on upfronts by having Troy Patterson go to the CW's presentation. There are at least two reasons that I'm happy they had Katy Perry perform at their upfront. Apparently, she's some sort of singer! Strangely, I had never noticed that she sang.Anyway, all of the CW shows sound horrible, but none of them are really aimed at me. Nikita sounds like it would have potential if it was on another network, but since it is on the CW, then she will probably be a part-time assassin, and a part-time fashion consultant. Plain Jane and Shedding for the Wedding sound like rehashes of shows. And California Gurls and Hellcats sound like the horrid, standard fare for the CW.
- And finally... This entire story from Slate about three guys claiming to be Jesus Christ who were forced to live together is pretty nuts. Enjoy! (And p.s., wasn't Dogma an underrated movie? I totally agree!)The Katy Perry photo is from here.
Anytime I hear about a new show on CW my eyes roll up into the back of my head. It's an involuntary reflex.
ReplyDeleteSex and the City 2 looks atrocious.
I'm with you on the CW shows. I like some borderline stuff, like Glee and Project Runway, but I draw the line at Gossip Girl and One Tree Hill. Both sound pretty horrible to me.
ReplyDeleteDon't hate on Gossip Girl. It's awesomely bad. You could only be so lucky to be like Chuck Bass! haha
ReplyDeleteOther than that, yes the other shows on their channel are pretty lame.
And yes, Dogma is a great movie. Alan Rickman before I came to know him as Severus Snape.
Is it awesomely bad? Most women I talk to about it give off the impression that it is actually a decent show, at least in their opinion.
ReplyDeleteRickman is the dude who plays as the angel helper of Alanis "God" Morrisette, right? I loved Jagged Little Pill. That was one of my first albums.